Today on Food on Fridays we celebrate the return of one of my blog features, The Doughnut Diaries, a series I added to the blog back in Tübingen.

The other day we stopped by a 21st century American doughnut institution: the Krispy Kreme store here in Melbourne. I’d blogged about it 4 years ago; you can read about that visit here: https://22bz.wordpress.com/2011/05/11/playing-at-parenting-101-food-in-america/

This time around, Chris and I were on our own and only popped in for a quick visit. We were in need of  a quick sugar fix after spending hours doing errands and grocery shopping – and Krispy Kreme doughnuts are nothing if not a sugar fix.

We each just got one doughnut; as I wrote in that old post, I prefer my doughnuts filled in general, and also chocolate glazed, so we got one of each type:

Krispy Kreme doughnuts, Melbourne, August 2015

However, even though they looked slightly different from the basic Krispy Kreme doughnut style (refer back to my old post for a photo), they tasted the same: just pure sugar, no other flavor, even though the icing was nominally chocolate and the filling nominally lemon.

Ah well, once will do me for quite some time, I think. But when in America, you need to stop by the Krispy Kreme store at least once.

Well, at least, you do if you write a blog that has a Doughnut Diaries theme on occasion.